HB 2599 - DIGEST

     Declares that it is unlawful for any person, firm, partnership, corporation, or other entity to engage in, conduct, or carry on the business of a residential contractor, without having an unrevoked, unsuspended, and unexpired residential contractor license.

     Establishes the residential contractors' recovery fund, to be administered by the department, from which any person injured by an act, representation, transaction, or conduct of a licensed residential contractor, that is in violation of rules adopted by the department, may be awarded in the county where the violation occurred an amount of not more than twenty thousand dollars for damages sustained by the act, representation, transaction, or conduct.